how do you control your rage attacks?

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I'm not sure if I have them. I was disciplined a lot growing up, so I have a bit more self-control than others...at least in not having outbursts until I just can't take anymore.

I do know I have a lot of anger issues, and I am concerned about the way they might drive my motivations to do things in life that might not be in my best interest.

I mostly keep my rage in check by avoiding people. Things that set me off are being told what to do (I'm 21 years old for God's sake), being condescended to, and getting sensory overload. Since any given person (except my dad, therapist and aunt) can set me off at a moment's notice based on what they do or say, I mostly avoid people, like I said. Either that, or if I'm in a group of people, I leave the situation as soon as I can. When I get really, really mad at somebody, I usually think to myself, "They know what they're doing will hurt me, and they're doing it on purpose" or "Whatever I could do to punish them will NEVER be as bad as what they're doing to me." I simply think of it as my perogative to punish people or preserve whatever dignity I have left in any way I deem appropriate when I'm in a rageful mindset. I think this is a by-product of years of never sticking up for myself, people taking advantage of my good nature, and having never really had that many real-life friends.

I don't have them... I just shut down, or fall on the floor and cry.

When I was very much younger I did have more "temper-tantrumy" meltdowns, but I was never coherent enough to actually aim any attacks at anyone else. It would be more like, just kicking and hitting randomly, and if someone got in the way, then they might get hurt because they just happened to be there.

I don't really get how someone can be so out of control as to be hitting things, but still in control enough to aim at specific people they don't like. I mean, if it happened to you, I believe it, but still, I don't see how, if you can aim at people you wouldn't normally hit, you can't aim at inanimate objects or just not hit anyone at all.

I don't tend to explode. I do feel angry inside but I just turn silence, grumpy etc rather than yell or become violent. I've always been like that. So I've never had to control my actions. I'm not really good at controlling my inner anger, though. I tend to hold grudge for a long time and be bitter. I don't easily forgive once I decide someone is a truly bad person. Maybe never.

my rage attacks are very bad, i have gotten arrested before, and i have also made people bleed. i cant control them, someone has to hold me until i calm down enough to control myself.

I have rage attacks. Those ''I f*****g hate my life but don't know which way to turn'' types of rage attacks.

What really depresses me is, anger isn't really me. It's the Asperger's. I know all humans get angry at times (even placid types of people), but the way I lash out ain't me. Underneath I'm a kind, gentle, quiet, timid person who just wants everyone to be happy and love helping other people out. That is my nature. These angry lash-outs I have aren't me.

It's like a person you have known all (or most of) your life, who gets Alzheimer's. They start doing things that they didn't ever used to do, and everybody knows that it's not them doing it, it's the Alzheimer's. The Alzheimer's is the enemy, attacking that person's poor brain and not letting them display the person they've always been. It's like this with my Asperger's - it's making me behave aggressively and thinking bad thoughts and hating myself severely, and I know it's not my real self, it's the Asperger's. It's the Asperger's what's the enemy, attacking my poor brain and not letting me display the person I am meant to be.

I can't help these angry rages. I am going to the doctors next week to have a chat with them and see what meds I can take. I didn't want it to come to this, it's the last thing I want to do, but I have tried everything else (counseling, CBT, group meetings, volunteering, exercising), and it may have worked temporarily but I soon go back to being depressed and lonely again, so I will have to resort to meds. I just hope it will stop my intense emotions and help me feel more at ease and happier.

Rant to myself about things, hopefully where no one else can hear me if possible.

I have never had meltdowns in front of other people, not even when I was younger, I always waited until I was on my own, then they would take the form of hitting or kicking inanimate objects. I've never broken anything, but I have come close on several occasions to putting holes in kitchen cabinets. The last time it happened I was 15, and the crunch the cabinet door made when I kicked it as hard as I could scared me out of my rage because the house was rented, and I knew I'd get in huge trouble for damaging it. These days I'm more self-harming than anything else. I've slammed my head into my bed frame and smacked myself repeatedly so hard that I left bruises, but I recently discovered that cutting out all sensory stimuli and flattening myself under my weighted blanket definitely helps. My meltdowns are typically triggered by one of three things: sensory overload, somebody doing or saying something that makes me angry, or doing something stupid or careless or forgetful that makes me miss an opportunity I had been looking forward to. It's been a while since I last had one, and I hope to keep it that way.

In my case....... thank goodness for Strattera (Atomoxitine).
Those meds somehow allow me time to think "Is kicking that really such a good idea?", and "If I punched that, I'd be more hurt than the object would".

I've had rage attacks and meltdowns all my life, Triggers are all sorts of things, being around people too much, too much sensory input, being patronised (when I was younger) - a lot of the time I just don't know why it happens. I find them uncontrollable and they've caused me a lot of distress, made me look stupid, lost me potential friends, and upset people.

The only thing I've found that works for me a bit is watching my diet. This means eating healthy food regularly to keep my blood sugar steady, only eating whole carbohydrates (gluten free if possible), only eating sugar with meals so it doesn't spike my blood sugar so much (ideally I would give it up but I like my chocolate!). It doesn't stop the attacks all together but they are a lot less frequent and I'm able to sometimes talk myself out of them or just get out of the room and sit quietly rather than kicking off.

If I'm going into a situation that might induce an anger or anxiety breakdown, I have a valium an hour beforehand.

Xanax, I'll chew them if things are really bad.

Martial arts and firearms training helps too, the fact that I could easily harm whoever is making me enraged allows me to think clearly about why that wouldn't be a good idea and calm down. I call that "gun zen".

God lord this is what im here about. Its also one of the clues about myself that I may be an aspie. From a young age i would EXPLODE with anger uncontrollable rage for no good reason that I can remember. I do remember having head aches after and being depressed also. I had a meltdown/ EXPLOSION just before Thanksgiving, im 43yo I should not be having them. It had been a very long time since i had one. It was over some comments my mom and sister were making, i guess i felt slighted in some way. Hell I even removed myself from the situation and went and talked with my nephew but the anger was still there. SO i left my parents house and went home and called and exploded on the phone to my mom. Yes after i felt like hell for being an ass and also losing control ( or what i call control). its all so confusing for me.

My Aspie husband gets them. He breaks s**t mostly.

His are fueled by frustration over something. The rage attacks escalated until he actually came after me. I called the police because why should I put up with that? His rage had nothing to do with something I did.

Well, the police dropped the domestic violence charges because his shrink and I argued that is was a combination of medication and stress. It wasn't, but that kept him out of jail.

Jaye is coping better. I leave him alone when gets stressed out. He never did the rages around anyone else but me. The shrink told him that it showed some self control.

If Jaye ever does that to me again, punching walls and chasing after me, I'm gone. I signed up to be a partner, not a punching bag.

I don't provoke him. I don't deserve to have a person terrorize me and our child.

Jaye says he hates his brain because of this. He told me it feels good to break things. It's a release. It feels good to rage at that moment. But all through school he got his ass kicked because of the rages. He sees a red fog, and he wants to stomp whatever is in from of him.

The problem is that might work when you are younger, but as a 50 somethings guy, you're looking at jail time.

Love my husband. Just won't be a door mat.

I just outgrew them naturally. Now I just avoid the person or situation.